WWE pays mid six figure sum for Gorgeous George movie rights

Reported by Ernest I Aguilar

Several readers sent in word that Deadline.com has a story regarding WWE Studios acquiring the rights to produce a movie on WWE Hall of Famer Gorgeous George based on the 2008 John Capouya book "Gorgeous George: The Outrageous Bad-Boy Wrestler Who Created American Popular Culture."

The article notes that the company paid a mid six figure price tag for the rights which is the highest so far for a WWE Studios movie. Filming on the movie will start in 2011, an exception to McMahon's rule "not to make pictures about wrestlers." 

WWE will be picking up the full bill for the Gorgeous George movie as well for all the rest of the movies in the pipeline